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Hot on the heels of a new Broadcom system that taps into the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) in order to reduce first-lock times, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group has quietly adopted GNSS Profile 1.0 for GPS data sharing.
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Bluetooth SIG embraces GNSS Profile 1.0 for GPS data sharing
Here’s something for those who’ve wanted to slip their wrists into one of those MOTOACTV fitness watches, but don’t really do the whole running thing.
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Motorola intros MOTOACTV Golf Edition, doesn’t come in pastel
For the smattering of hardcore argonauts on staff here at Engadget ( guilty as charged ), we’ve clung tightly to Android when it came time to navigate on the move.
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Nokia Drive gets full offline access, Maps / Transport also updated
I was 19 degrees here today! (That’s 66.2 degrees Fahrenheit for anyone south of the border) For March, in Canada, that’s crazy hot. Ironically, my dad just went to Florida to go golfing for two weeks. I should have got him the Golf Buddy Tour GPS Range Finder before his trip
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Golf Buddy Tour GPS Range Finder
Pentax has been teasing us with its trio of cameras for what seems like an eternity. It’s been long enough that we’ve actually had playtime with the new mirrorless flagship, the K-01 . That chunky retro body will turn some heads in the street, so any fashionistas can now pick it up
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Pentax K-01 and Optio WG-2 cameras now available
Following a January ruling by the US Supreme Court, the FBI has deactivated some 3,000 GPS units that were potentially infringing on the Fourth Amendment. The decision seems to be making waves in the U.S
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FBI deactivates about 3,000 GPS tracking devices, loses sight of your car
Broadcom’s taken the chance to bust out some killer new internals for Android phones here at MWC. The new range of SoCs are optimized for Ice Cream Sandwich , based on single or dual-core 40-nanometer ARM Cortex A9s
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Broadcom releases new Ice Cream Sandwich-optimized chipsets at MWC
Taser International has released an update to its on-officer system , the AXON Flex. The new rig provides law enforcement officials with body-mounted cameras that capture video evidence “from the officer’s perspective.” These recording devices can be affixed to the hat, collar, shoulder or on specially designed Oakley shades and are ruggedized to IPX2 standards. That’s all well and good, but what really gives this setup nerd-cred is what can be done with the captured video.
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Taser’s on-officer cameras catch you in the act, right to remain silent imperative
To say it’s been a bumpy road for LightSquared over recent months would be an understatement. However, developments this week could see the beleaguered company reach a critical fork in the road. On Tuesday, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration confirmed that LightSquared’s planned network would indeed interfere with global positioning systems, and that there was no “practical way” to work around this
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LightSqured grasps at straws, slams FCC in a statement
To say it’s been a bumpy road for LightSquared over recent months would be an understatement. However, developments this week could see the beleaguered company reach a critical fork in the road. On Tuesday, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration confirmed that LightSquared’s planned network would indeed interfere with global positioning systems, and that there was no “practical way” to work around this.
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LightSquared grasps at straws, slams FCC in a statement
Hot off the heels of the One X and EVO 4G LTE spending some prolonged time at customs , now another member of HTC’s sensational family appears to be feeling the rigorous effects of the ITC.
Accuracy is generally an important consideration in computer chips, but a team of researchers led by Rice University are touting a new “inexact” chip (dubbed PCMOS) that they say could lead to as much as a fifteen-fold increase in efficiency. Their latest work, which won a best paper award at a recent ACM conference, builds on years of research in the field from the university, and is already moving far beyond the lab — some inexact hardware is being used in the “i-slate” educational tablet developed by the Rice-NTU Institute for Sustainable and Applied Infodynamics, 50,000 of which are expected to wind up in India’s Mahabubnagar school district over the next three years.
While the main thing that would make Raspberry Pi’s diminutive $25 / $35 Linux setups better would be if we could get our hands on them faster , the team behind it is already working on improvements like this prototype camera seen above.
If you found yourself longing for the minor tweaks Samsung made to the Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Germany earlier this year, you may be in luck: Apple’s filed for a preliminary injunction against the slate stateside.
Let’s face it, whether you’re down at the laundromat or feeding the meter on a busy street, you can never find enough quarters when you need’em. Know what effectively sidesteps that lack of foresight? NFC , that’s what
We here at Engadget tend to spend a lot of way too much time poring over the latest FCC filings, be it on the net or directly on the ol’ Federal Communications Commission’s site. Since we couldn’t possibly (want to) cover all the stuff that goes down there individually, we’ve gathered up an exhaustive listing of every phone and / or tablet getting the stamp of approval over the last week. Enjoy! Continue reading FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012 FCC Fridays: May 18, 2012 originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 18 May 2012 23:52:00 EDT
Ready for your latest tour through the dense and meandering wording of patent applications ? Well, dig in, because it’s Microsoft’s turn to confuse lawyers the world over with this latest USPTO doc, submitted in November of 2010. The filing describes a computer-based program that would, essentially, analyze a primary device’s installed applications, cross-reference it with a different device and then either migrate that software batch or suggest similar apps to download on a secondary unit
Having spent a little time with it, we’re impressed with how much capability the engineers managed to pack into the Canon SX150 , at such an affordable price. As you’d expect given the bargain-basement ~$179 street, it’s not without its limitations, but considering what you get, it’s pretty amazing: A capable, well-built 14-megapixel digital camera with an optically stabilized 12x zoom lens and a good assortment of features
There’s been hints of it coming as early as February , but we now have a smoking gun at the FCC: the Galaxy S III is coming to T-Mobile. A Samsung SGH-T999 has popped up at the agency sporting newly added 1,700MHz AWS support that’s the telltale sign of a T-Mobile device, along with the T999 name itself (the T989 is the network’s Galaxy S II ). It also totes 850MHz and 1,900MHz WCDMA bands being used for HSPA+ data rather than just voice, a clue that the phone is ready for refarmed GSM spectrum
Sony must stay on top of Android updates for its tablets to remain relevant to consumers. (Credit: Sony) One must wonder why Sony cannot get out of the habit of playing a fragmented and behind-the-curve Android release schedule for its devices.
